#MeToo: Why the Backlash?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Activist Danielle Moss talks about the backlash to the #MeToo movement highlighting abuse of women, while former gang member Eldra Jackson talks about toxic masculinity. Author of Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly, asks why men are allowed to be angry while women are not.
(Photo: A stock image of an angry woman, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jane Wakefield and this is Business Daily. |
| 0:06.1 | How many men have been victims of predators? |
| 0:10.4 | The hashtag Me Too movement is a people thing. |
| 0:13.0 | I understand that right now we need to utilize it to garner attention for the things that are happening to women so I fully support that. |
| 0:20.9 | And I would like to see a space to include more people in it. |
| 0:26.0 | The Me Too movement was born out of women's anger about sexual violence. |
| 0:30.7 | But what impact has the movement had and are women still angry? |
| 0:35.3 | Has Me Too gone beyond its original purpose? And then there's the backlash. We've |
| 0:41.4 | all heard it. The Me Too movement is a witch hunt, right? Me Too is dismantling due process. Or Me Too has |
| 0:51.2 | created a gender war. It was never meant to destroy men's lives. |
| 0:57.3 | It was never meant to harm innocent men. |
| 1:00.1 | If you have not been behaving in ways that violate other people, you really don't have to worry. |
| 1:06.9 | Can anger change society, or is it destroying it? |
| 1:10.5 | Here on Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm at the TED Women Conference in Palm Springs |
| 1:20.4 | and one topic has dominated discussions, me too and its impact. |
| 1:26.0 | The conference is overwhelmingly female, but one man took to the stage to talk about toxic |
| 1:31.3 | masculinity and his own extreme anger. |
| 1:37.4 | Well, on a day-to-day basis, I was selling narcotics. |
| 1:41.0 | I was running guns. |
| 1:44.0 | I was robbing people, kidnapped a few people in my time, |
| 1:50.3 | burglaries, attempted murder, car theft. Yeah, pretty much everything. Yeah, if it was dangerous, my hand was up and I'm down for it. |
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